I did not watch yesterday except for the first 5 minutes. Watching today, and really love Rosie Perez. She keeps it real.I like Rosie O, but her personality is so 'Alpha', like to be in control. Wonder how that will play out later on with Whoopie being at the head of the table

Tempers explode on The View as Whoopi and Rosie O'Donnell "come to blows" during a commercial break

A
nasty showdown erupted on the set of The View last Thursday when the
show's moderator Whoopi Goldberg and co-host Rosie O'Donnell got into a
heated spat in front of the studio audience.

Rosie
was upset because Whoopi cut her off on a 'Hot Topic' subject that
O'Donnell indicated she was passionate about backstage before the show.
The segment ran out of time and Whoopi had to cut to a commercial, a
show insider tells MailOnline exclusively.

The 'Hot Topic'
was on spanking and the segment was running long, so producers told
Whoopi it was time to go to commercial break in her ear. Rosie refuses
to wear an ISD monitor in her ear so the control room is unable to speak
to her.

Whoopi told her that if she had an ear monitor, she
would have known what was going on. When Whoopi did the abrupt cut to
commercial, when Rosie let loose, the insider said.

'As
soon as they went to commercial break, Rosie took the handheld
microphone that they use to engage the audience,' explains the tipster.

'Instead
of talking to the crowd, Rosie spoke directly to Whoopi in the mic that
she "hurt my feelings," and that she was "very upset by it" and "didn't
appreciate" what Whoopi had done.'

Standing to the side without a microphone, Whoopi responded by saying: 'This isn't the time for this, Rosie.'

Instead
of moving on, O'Donnell continued to gripe openly in front of the
audience in the microphone about what she perceived as an on-air snub.

'Well
I just don't appreciate you saying that you were going to do something
and not doing it. It makes me upset and I just don't want to have to go
through this,' O'Donnell continued.

Goldberg, looking annoyed, shot back: 'I said this was not the time Rosie.'

Not
phased by the Oscar winner's petition to leave matters alone until
after the show, the 52-year-old comedienne continued to vent about
Whoopi's actions.

The View moderator then fired back to Rosie: 'F***
it, I told you to leave it alone and you just don't want to listen. If
you want to go there Rosie, I will dammit. I'm really sick of your
s***!'

A hush fell over the studio.

'At
this point, you could've heard a pin drop. It was like everything came
to a standstill and Rosie finally backed down,' the source explained.

New co-host Rosie Perez then jumped up and made light of the moment, ending the quiet that had fallen over the room.

'Oh
s***, Twitter is going to be off the hook now,' Perez quipped, causing
the crowd to laugh. 'They're about to get it,' she continued.

Producers
hurried over to the two ladies with notes and information regarding the
next segment and when the show returned live, it was as though nothing
had gone wrong.

Relations between Rosie and Whoopi behind the
scenes at The View have been tense since the beginning of the season, as
sources believe that O'Donnell really wants to be in her old moderator
role and is having a hard time playing second fiddle to Goldberg.

Additionally,
Goldberg has begged ABC to terminate her contract with the network and
pay her the remaining $10 million on her deal to go home, as she hates
working on the show now, particularly with all of the changes.

Sources
at The View tell MailOnline that Rosie has been a terror from the
get-go, only allowing the three new executive producers and co-hosts;
Whoopi and newcomers Rosie Perez and Nicolle Wallace, to communicate
with her and making it clear to everyone in earshot, she's literally
running the show.

'She has a definitive view of how she would like the show to go and wants everyone else to fall in line,' said a show insider.

When
Rosie and new co-host Nicole Wallace did a test show with two fill-in
hosts in an effort to build chemistry. Neither Rosie Perez or Whoopi
were present.

Despite the fact that Whoopi is the regular
moderator for the show, leading the discussion, Rosie took charge of the
test show with Nicole.

'It was almost as though she was
rehearsing for when she eventually takes over as moderator. It's clear
that she would have preferred being in that capacity as she was before,'
offered the source.

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